Columbia Pictures has released the first official trailer for the film, Captain Phillips, the story about the 2009 hijacking of the MV Maersk Alabama (the first US ship in 200 hundred years) by Somali pirates. The film is directed by Paul Greengrass and stars Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Max Martini, Yul Vazquez, Michael Chernus, Chris Mulkey, Corey Johnson, David Warshofsky, John Magaro and Angus MacInnes. Captain Phillips is scheduled for release on 11th October 2013.

“The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.”